What is significant about Mormon including in his record Alma’s commandments and counsel to his sons?

Thomas R. Valletta

“Where does a prophet begin to change things? What could he do to turn things around in the land? Notice that he did not begin with a general conference, though he was the prophet, nor did he call a press conference to gather public support. He chose instead to start at home. In fact, perhaps Mormon, in making his abridgment, felt this point was so critical for us as a latter-day people to understand that he put aside his account of wars and difficulties that Alma faced in governing his people and instead detailed in his transcript how a prophet may have helped change the entire social order. He began at home!” (Anderson and Anderson, “One by One,” 55).

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